Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett

Writing April 13, 1906

Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and Frenc…

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

4.3 1965 TV Show
Film

Film

7.0 1965 Movie
Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

7.1 2001 Movie
Play

Play

7.1 2001 Movie
Breath

Breath

5.6 2001 Movie
Catastrophe

Catastrophe

6.4 2001 Movie
Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape

7.4 2000 Movie
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

9.0 2002 TV Show
If I Had Four Dromedaries

If I Had Four Dromedaries

7.0 1966 Movie
Not I

Not I

5.8 2000 Movie
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

10.0 2003 Movie
My Case

My Case

6.9 1986 Movie

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    How It Is

    Movie Writer

  2. 2026
    GIGI !

    Movie Original Story

  3. 2025
    Waiting for Godot

    Movie Writer

  4. 2025
    Waiting for Godot

    Movie Novel

  5. 2023
    Endgame

    Movie Writer

  6. 2021
    Waiting for Godot

    Movie Theatre Play

  7. 2021
    Happy Days

    Movie Writer

  8. 2020
    Come and Go

    Movie Writer

  9. 2020
    Waiting for Godot

    Movie Writer

  10. 2020
    Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)

    Movie Writer

  11. 2019
    Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett

    Movie Self (Archive)

  12. 2019
    Barney's Wall

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  13. 2019
    En attendant Godot

    Movie Theatre Play

  14. 2018
    Beckett by Brook

    Movie Writer

  15. 2018
    Waiting for Godot

    Movie Theatre Play

  16. 2015
    Notfilm

    Movie Self (archive footage)

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  1. 2014
    The Lost One

    Movie Short Story

  2. 2013
    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

    Movie Writer

  3. 2013
    What Where

    Movie Writer

  4. 2012
    Emancipation in the Brain

    Movie Novel

  5. 2011
    Wydalony

    Movie Theatre Play

  6. 2008
    Fin de partie

    Movie Theatre Play

  7. 2007
    Krapp's Last Tape

    Movie Theatre Play

  8. 2003
    Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

    Movie Writer

  9. 2002
    Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  10. 2002
    Ohio Impromptu

    Movie Writer

  11. 2001
    Catastrophe

    Movie Writer

  12. 2001
    Play

    Movie Theatre Play

  13. 2001
    Act Without Words I

    Movie Writer

  14. 2001
    Act Without Words II

    Movie Writer

  15. 2001
    A Piece of Monologue

    Movie Writer

  16. 2001
    Waiting for Godot

    Movie Writer

  17. 2001
    Breath

    Movie Writer

  18. 2000
    Endgame

    Movie Writer

  19. 2000
    Krapp's Last Tape

    Movie Writer

  20. 2000
    What Where

    Movie Writer

  21. 2000
    Happy Days

    Movie Theatre Play

  22. 2000
    Footfalls

    Movie Writer

  23. 2000
    Not I

    Movie Writer

  24. 2000
    Rockaby

    Movie Writer